ctubbsii opened a new issue #2027: URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/2027
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Sometimes, we unintentionally break API. It would be nice if we could detect this in a PR. **Describe the solution you'd like** A new matrix line in our QA / CI checks in GitHub Actions could be added to check our public API classes to see if they have had a breaking change (change of method signature or removal of method). We could also detect API additions. It would be okay for this check to fail, if the change is actually intended. But, having this check fail when such changes do occur in a PR will bring our attention to changes we might not have intended to make. **Describe alternatives you've considered** Catch it in code review manually (what we do now) or check periodically (what we tend to do at release time). **Additional context** N/A -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
